Alex Newport's Profile |
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3rd Mall From The Sun |
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| Age: | 37 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | Brooklyn, New York |
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| Height: | 5' 10" |
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| Last Login: | Jul 10, 2008 (547 days back) |
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About Me |
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| I'm a music mixer and producer. Fighting a losing battle against over-processed, soul-less, generic sounding records.
Some of the bands I've worked with: At The Drive-in, The Mars Volta, Two Gallants, Death Cab For Cutie, Samiam, The Locust, Piebald, Polysics, Me First And The Gimme Gimmies, System Of A Down, Ikara Colt, Sepultura... Sleep is for losers, innit.mixer/producer discography my recording studio |
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My Interests |
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| I like playing with cats and assisting with suicides. | |
I'd like to meet:solid geezahs and luvly lasses. and good bands!for production/mixing bookings please contact:Heather Hawkins, AAM Inc 212 929 2929 heather@aaminc.com or drop me a line: newport@alexnewport.com |
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Music:Jimi Hendrix/Massive Attack/Black Flag/Doves/Longwave/Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Crowded House/Los Lobos/James Brown/R.E.M/Crass/Martha Reeves and the Vandellas/Schooly D/Jeff Buckley/PJ Harvey/The Birthday Party/Stone Roses/Marvin Gaye/Sonic Youth/James Blood Ulmer/Chavez/At The Drive-In/Bauhaus/Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band/Tricky/Brainiac/Portishead/Blur/Radiohead/David Bowie/XTC/Wire/Wilco/The Fall/Duran Duran/Drunks With Guns/U2/Undertones/Velvet Underground/Nick Cave/Drive Like Jehu/Kool Keith/Chrome/Coltrane/The Cure/Devo/Depeche Mode/Dead Kennedys/Gang Of Four/Fugazi/Bill Frissell/Nels Cline/Miles Davis/Killing Joke/Led Zeppelin/The Flaming Lips/Editors/!Forward Russia!/Nine Inch Nails/Q And Not U/Teenage Fanclub/Ride/Suede/Jesus Lizard/Minor Threat/The Meters/Me'Shell Ndegeocello/Mercury Rev/MC5/Le Shok/Echo And The Bunnymen/Pixies/Primal Scream/Psychedelic Furs/Rage Against The Machine/Sisters Of Mercy/Public Image Limited/The Smiths/Sly & The Family Stone/Slayer/Chic/Refused/Roxy Music/Six Finger Satellite/Dinosaur Jr/Corrine Bailey Rae/Lil Kim/The Walkmen/Ben Folds Five/Tori Amos/Pavement/Lamb/Foals/Gallows/Two Gallants/Spoon/Sneaker Pimps/The Kinks/Green Day/South/Spacemen 3/Oasis/Thin Lizzy/Ryan Adams/Johnny Cash/Lou Reed/Emmylou Harris/The Specials/The Selecter/Beck/Soul Coughing/Thursday/My Morning Jacket/Pink Floyd/Stranglers/Tool/The Jam/Slint/Talking Heads/Husker Du/Swervedriver/Stooges/The Who/The Sonics/Rocket From The Crypt/Sonny Rollins/Rites Of Spring/Cabaret Voltaire/Digital Underground/Big Star/ACDC/Big Black/Blondie/Frank Zappa/Suicide/Public Enemy |
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Movies:Hitchcock, Altman, (early) Tarantino, Kubrick, Coen, Polanski, Planet Of The Apes (the original of course), Steve Martin, Dark City, Antonioni, Child's Play, The Omen |
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Television:I fucking hate television. It's like taking black paint to your eyes, it's the worst uh, oh wait, I really like "Family Guy" |
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Books:Kurt Vonnegut, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hunter S. Thompson, Iain Banks, Irvine Welsh, Nick Hornby, Harold Pinter, Sarah Kane, Haruki Murakami, Leonard Cohen, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Jerry Kosinski, William Saroyan |
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Heroes:nah. I prefer falafel. |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Single |
| SexualOrientation: | Straight |
| Hometown: | Birmingham, UK |
| Religion: | Atheist |
| Occupation: | I got the mad skills on the mic. |
My Pictures |
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My Blog |
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mixing records |
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| Recently I've been doing a lot of mixing work. At the moment my time is split pretty equally between producing/mixing and just mixing. I'm really enjoying mixing! It's great to get involved at the mix... Posted by Alex Newport on Sun, 07 May 2006 01:47:00 PST |
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We Do Not Deserve To Inhabit This Planet, Part 946: Plastic Continent |
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| http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=858 Posted by Alex Newport on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:37:00 PST |
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if its too loud, youre too old..... or its OVERCOMPRESSED!!!! |
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//www.cdmasteringservices.com/dynamicrange.htm... Posted by Alex Newport on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:10:00 PST |
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borough check |
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| yeah, after years of talking about it, I finally made the decision to move to New York City in July. I found a great warehouse space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and will be building my new studio there. I... Posted by Alex Newport on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:29:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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Jubilee, Future Shock Studio, DEAD TO ME, COCO B’S, sasha, tWO gALLANTS, Peggy Sue, At The Drive-In, the prayers, o'death, Ubyk, so many dynamos, Modwheelmood, Death Cab for Cutie, Daysleeper, Taint - August Tour Announced!, Twilight Star, MANDOLYNART, C h r i s, Kenny, AZTLAN UNDERGROUND, Emperor City Motorcade, Top, who rides the tiger, The Mars Volta New York Fans, Vesuvian, Willowbrook, The Kit Ruscoe band, ʎɹǝʌɐ, Tenniel, taeko, Lances With Wolves, Miss Gaby, Kitten Victoria, gordo R.D.P., LV, primal tech, cold turkey, jankenpon, Fidelitorium, Super Cute Voices, the sweet revenge [EP AVAILABLE NOW], Discrete Encounter, chris j keys, Xtra Mile Recordings, Katy [is EVERYWHERE!], freak kingdom, degs, Maryam, (kristen), chadly
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